Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 125
“I want nothing; but, if you have any cards, give me some as a keepsake.”
Who acts: fellow, you · What happens: want, have, give · To what, where: nothing, cards, some, fellow
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 but | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 cards | det |
| 12 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 keepsake | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 keepsake | det |
| 19 | keepsake | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | fellow | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | any cards | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | fellow not said here | some | fellow | as a keepsake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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